I have two PCs. I'd like to switch my main gamin rig to something with the KDE desktop. Ive played with KDE before and I just like the customization in it.

I have two PCs. A 4080 with a 13700k and a 6900xt with a 10850k. Right now I game on my 4080 build on my dual 1440p monitor setup. The other PC is used on my 4k TV. I am wrestling with my options. I want one of them to be on Linux, and the Linux PC to my on my dual monitor setup. I'm open to switching where the PCs are. I have some money about $1200 to upgrade but I don't know if that's worth it. I have two balanced systems and the 9070 XT is barely better than my 6900xt and a 7900xtx is basically the same as my 4080. I keep telling myself save more and buy a nother system when there's a good AMD card to get at least a 50% upgrade over my 6900xt. Them if probably go both and cpu and gpu.

I think that my 4080 can upscale Netflix which is a plus for moving the PCs around. I know I could get my 4080 to run Linux, but the 6900xt would be much more plug and play, realistically a 4080 with a 10850k could play cyberpunk at 4k on that TV and at 60 fps. And I could get better streaming that way. I don't know if a 13700k and a 6900xt makes much sense though.

I'm just here to get some opinions, if I don't change anything until a build a new system that's okay. Just wanted some thoughts. Thanks in advance!

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seriously, every time someone expresses interest in linux and gaming the name bazzite is bound to pop up, it's neither a good beginner distribution or a good distribution at all. i can only see bazzite being good at one thing and that's for a tv gaming setup, where it's only use case will be gaming and gaming only, because good luck getting anything productive done on that thing.

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NVIDIA have released a blog post from chief security officer, fighting back against attempts from pundits and policymakers in governments wanting backdoors.

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Picked up the PXN CB1, and trying to get it working.

It's being detected in lsusb, evtest aswell.

Linux mint 22.1

So figure there's something I've gotta do to get it presented to the games properly.

Any guides/advice welcome

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Celebrating their sixth anniversary as a studio, Japenese developer Odencat have released a free heartwarming adventure with Wish Upon a Cat.

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FALLSTRUKTUR is a new free 3D platformer game that sees you descend through a world of dream-like geometry.

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Fellas. I'll be moving to Linux in a few days, just waiting for my RX 9060 XT to be delivered, since I'm new on Linux (only tried multiple distros via VM) I need to properly figure out what distro I should choose. I really like Mint for being stable and newbie-friendly but I'm not too fond with the idea of it having EOL plans unlike other distros (but I can see why they do that), and I'm also not too fond with having to manually install the more recent kernels if I want better gaming performances.

So I started poking through multiple distros in the past couple of months and tried a few of them:

• Bazzite seems a wonderful option but I've heard it has frequent crash issues despite its growing popularity? I'll let the experts give me a heads up on this.
• Then I saw CachyOS, I haven't tried it for long but it looked pretty stable and I noticed it even surpassed Mint on DistroWatch and lots of people sound very supportive about it! Although I read it is Arch-based, and even if I don't have real issues with Arch stuff since I'm not a guy who customises much stuff or installs weird packages (I'm not a tech-guy, lol)... I'm not too sure about its stability.

I know the safest options are usually the most popular, because they get the most support and updates, but again... I'd like something that doesn't break after a couple of days :')

Extra info: I mostly do gaming, draw with Krita and do video editing with DaVinci Resolve

Thank you in advance for all the replies! Can't wait to finally say goodbye to Windows

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some people seem to suggest just not using any other apps will solve it but it didn't, my unpacking crashed at about 44% with the -1 error code

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hi, someone have this working on steam archlinux? https://store.steampowered.com/app/999020/Mega_Man_ZeroZX_Legacy_Collection/?l=spanish is listed as platinum on protondb but only works in steamdeck, i tried every proton version, same result, silently close, i have nvidia rtx 3060, 64gb ram, and a 13900kf.

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The NLnet Foundation revealed more projects receiving funding from NGI Zero Commons, which includes the popular Bottles app for running Windows apps on Linux.

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Humble Choice for August 2025 has been revealed and there's a really great selection of games this time including the likes of Persona 5 Royal.

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In addition to releasing a new Beta series recently, NVIDIA have now put up driver version 570.181 as the latest recommended stable driver for Linux.

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I'm gonna make this short , after doing some tests on kde arch i can tell x11 have the upper hand when it comes to input delay , idk why exactly Wayland is trash in input lag

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i9-13900H
32GB of DDR5 at 5200 MT/s
RTX 4050 (75W)

in terms of driver compatibility with the laptop (I'm basically happy if my keyboard backlight, trackpad, and brightness adjustment for the native display, and Wi-Fi + Ethernet function) and driver compatibility with the NVIDIA card.

intensive and light games will be played. prefer a high compatibility for games.
would prefer the distro in general to be customisable but also somewhat Windows like (beginner friendly)
also need a good replacement for nitrosense but I've read and have been told general Linux utilities an cover most of that in terms of fans control, performance profiles and the works.

coming from an even lower end machine than the one i have now, very used to configuring both my machine and the games I play! also the types of games I play, older ports and console titles require quite a bit of configuring to get them where I want them. I like to think im pretty good with physical and digital tinkering. I know Linux is not a plug and play experience/solution! half of the reason for making the jump is leisure, Linux will be something to do in my down time with uni, hoping to get into ricing and the such, love customising. other half of the reason for making the jump is just being so fucking sick of windows 11 - windows bloat in general kills me and

much prefer something that's not trying to cosplay as macos, (really shittily too, as a macos user also!) and additionally really sick of how W11 navigates (settings). Will probably dual boot with Windows 10 for compatibility and comfort tbh.

system will also be used for leisure (video playback and reading). On the point of being windows like, I'd probably like a tiling manager similar to that on windows? if that's what you guys call it? I just miss the way window snapping was back on 10. Now it's all picky and floaty.

at the moment I'm between the NVIDIA based distrobution of Pop!_OS and Bazzite, which has been making waves, but I don't care for it mimicking SteamOS all that much. don't care for the Big Picture mode stuff, so I went with GNOME as opposed to KDE for my enviroment.

IK you guys might suggest Mint since I want something so Windows like, or lighter Windows ISOs like Tiny10/11, but I've found these expereinces generally lacking. VERY open to other distro suggestions!
(sorry about the paragraphs in bursts! I'm aware of the limits of Linux gaming when it comes to online play and the such, so no worries there either)

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It was going to release on Steam but it was removed and banned for sale, now VILE: Exhumed is back as a free game to fight back against censorship.

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When I installed for the first time around 3 months ago things were looking fine. I used to get good frame rates and no problems as such.

But with the update a week ago 0n 31st July things started falling apart. Before that even Wayland video drivers were working. After this I am getting 30 fps sometimes 60 fps instead earlier I was getting 200 fps on average. On top of it even lags on launching and closing.

Issue raised on the github: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/4129 and https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/4131 .

System Info:

Ryzen 7 7435hs

rtx 3050 mobile

16gb ram

Cachyos 6.16 kernel with updated drivers.

It is truly disheartening to know that the most popular games on steam-linux is broken af.

PS: I disabled shader precaching in the settings. Would it matter because it downloads few gbs everytime I launch and takes even longer to compile it.

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I don't wanna go back to the devil's OS. I've tried disabling split lock and only using one monitor (the other one has a different refresh rate). I use a RTX 3070 laptop. I've heard it's most likely a Wayland issue, is there anyway to use X11 on Gnome ?

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When Steam does exist ?

For example i wanted to play an abandonware from 2007 (Sega Rally Revo), with Lutris/Heroic/etc impossible to make it work.

I just went on Steam -> Add a Non-Steam game -> Play. It worked instantly.

I understand the point of Heroic which is to get "easy access" to other launchers, but in fact, for me, i ALWAYS get into troubles to make something work.

Steam just make everything work out of the box, i can even download GOG Launcher and add it to Steam instead of using another app.

I honestly think that Lutris/Heroic/etc make everything much more complicated than it really is and that Steam is the only real easy solution for Linux gaming.

But maybe i am wrong, that's why i post here.

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So I tried the Black Myth Wukong Benchmark tool on my new PC. Screenshots are in the order Windows, Linux Mint, CachyOS.

Not sure why the VRAM usage is only showing on Linux. I use a 24 inch 100 hz monitor btw.

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